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Project WINS: Integrating vocational services on mental health case management teams

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In an effort to expand employment opportunities available to psychiatric consumers, a research demonstration project was developed to incorporate vocational services into case management teams. Following psychiatric rehabilitation principles, Project WINS employs professionals as Vocational Specialists and consumers as Peer Support Specialists to work with clients and their case managers. This report describes the characteristics of clients eligible for WINS services, the implementation of the program, and the impact of WINS on clients and on the mental health and vocational systems. It also describes the challenges and barriers this innovative service is confronting.

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  1. School of Social Work, Wayne State University, 4756 Cass Ave., 48202, Detroit, MI

    Carol T. Mowbray Ph.D.

  2. Project WINS, Grand Rapids

    Gail Rusilowski-Clover M.S.W., Jama Arnold B.S. & Charlie Allen

  3. Kent County Community Mental Health, Kent, UK

    Shirley Harris M.A.

  4. Michigan State University, Michigan, USA

    Nancy McCrohan M.S.

  5. Michigan Dept. of Mental Health, Michigan, USA

    Arnie Greenfield Ph.D.

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  1. Carol T. Mowbray Ph.D.
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Funded in part by Grant #R18MH46081, from the National Institute of Mental Health, awarded to the Michigan Department of Mental Health.

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Mowbray, C.T., Rusilowski-Clover, G., Arnold, J. et al. Project WINS: Integrating vocational services on mental health case management teams. Community Ment Health J 30, 347–362 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02207488

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